Quotes About Authority

In healthy multisite structures, the campus pastor has authority and the ministry leader/champion has influence.

When you give your men enough to need you but not enough to hate you, you'll have loyalty. But when you give your men too much, they don't need you

Och jag påpekade att huvudparten av vår tids olyckor har vållats av läsning och skrivning. De kemiska formlerna. Den genetiska koden. Partiprogrammen. Krigsförklaringarna. Myndigheterna. Atombomben.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

I must become my own owner, my own authority. I must be a home to myself, and I must find a way to live what I believe.

In the middle of the gravel was a large sign with black latters that said PRIVATE PROPERTY--NO TRESPASSING. "We'll go ashore," Grandma said. She was very angry. Sophia looked frightened. "There's a big difference," her grandmother explained. "No well-bred person goes ashore on someone else's island when there's no one home. But if they put up a sign, then you do it anyway, because it's a slap in the face.

I think you'd better leave." Lockhart stiffened. "I do not believe it is your place to request my departure." Shaking his head, William pushed back his chair. "I'm not requesting anything. I'm telling you to go.

It isn't a choice when you don't have the freedom to say no. A yes doesn't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed.

In Viridia, women were oppressed because men were afraid of them. Women had ruled this country. And history had denigrated them. Erased them. Nomi was certain this wasn't what Renzo had been taught. He would have told her. But the Superior knew. Whoever had given her this book knew. And now she did too.

Knowing I was your property made me safe, made me make sense in his world. It was okay that I was a 'handful' because you had me under control. Malachi, you didn't even blink. You didn't have to think about it. You knew what would reassure him, and it was treating me like an unbroken horse.

A yes doens't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed.

I know you value the rules, but sometimes . . . sometimes breaking them is the right thing to do. I

We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.

KAREN: What do you want me to say? BARBARA: Tell him we got a sick woman here. VIOLET: You can't do this! This is my house! This is my house! BARBARA: You don't get it, do you? (With a burst of adrenaline, she strides to Violet, towers over her) I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW! (Blackout.)

the church's fundamental task is to mediate God's presence as priests and to rule on behalf of God as kings and queens under God, serving God in God's mission. Our task is to represent

Nobody crossed the Directions, not even the police. Because the Directions worked for The Smoke. Reuben headed south, moving from alley to alley, keeping close to the buildings and ducking beneath windows.

According to the rules of chess, is this position possible?' Constance writes in response, 'Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!

You can eat whatever and whenever you want, so long as it's during meal hours in the cafeteria.

You're allowed to keep the lights on in your rooms as late as you wish until ten o'clock each night.

Rules and schools are tools for fools—I don't give two mules for rules!

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

That's bollocks,' said Owen's voice over the loudspeakers. 'That a medical term?' asked Jack. 'It is when I use it.

Spear as a talisman of power